LabelTrees
LabelTrees are how annotation labels are managed in LOST. The leafs of such a tree are the possible labels, an Annotator is able to use when annotating.
When creating an AnnotationTask, one or more nodes from a LabelTree are selected, making all their leafs available for the AnnotationTask.
Figure 1: Editing view of a LabelTree
A node in a LabelTree can have the following attributes:
- Name
- The displayed name of the label / node
- Color
- The color with which the label is displayed when used
- ID
- The ID by which it can be referenced (immutable)
- External ID (optional)
- Descripton (optional)
- Abbreviation (optional)